Sizing and Selection

Sizing your first order without guesswork

Size your first order from the sites you can name today, not the portfolio you hope to own in a year. Count what is...

What you gain and give up by consolidating sites onto fewer IPs

Collapsing an estate onto fewer addresses is a genuine saving, and for a lot of portfolios it is the correct move. What...

Reading a plan spec: what the numbers on a hosting page really mean

The number printed largest on a hosting page is almost never the one that stops you. Disk and transfer are cheap to...

Shared hosting, VPS or bare metal: a decision table

Five questions decide the tier, and none of them is "how big do I feel". Do you need root, is your load steady or...

Budgeting a network by cost per site per month

Judge every option on one figure: fully loaded cost per site per month. That is the hosting share, plus the domain...

Planning for growth without over buying on day one

Growth planning is not a forecast of how many sites you will own next year. It is a sorting job: every decision in...

Choosing between a US and an EU footprint

Pick the region your paying visitors sit closest to, then check whether any legal duty or buyer requirement overrides...

Matching IP class to the risk you are actually managing

Buy the amount of address separation that defeats the observer you actually expect, and stop there. Sites that differ...